1. He wore his coat threadbare.
    他把外套都穿破了。

1. 穿破旧衣服的：thread-needle 小孩游戏 | threadbare 穿破旧衣服的 | threaded newsreader 线程化新闻阅读器

2. threadbare的反义词

2. 毛绒已磨掉而露线的：thrasonical 夸口的 | threadbare 毛绒已磨掉而露线的 | threadcomputing 运作

3. threadbare

3. 露底;毛绒磨损(织疵)：修布边装置 thread trimming device | 露底;毛绒磨损(织疵) threadbare | 线环切断装置 thread-chain cutter

4. threadbare在线翻译

4. 陈腐的：23.Outdated 过时的 | 24.Threadbare 陈腐的=banal | 25.Two-edged sword 双刃剑,指有好处也有坏处

1. China's record as a citizen of the world is strikingly threadbare.
    中国在世界公民中的地位明显的陈腐了。

2. Mr. Wickham was the happy man towards whom almost every female eye was turned, and Elizabeth was the happy woman by whom he finally seated himself; and the agreeable manner in which he immediately fell into conversation, though it was only on its being a wet night, and on the probability of a rainy season, made her feel that the commonest, dullest, most threadbare topic might be rendered interesting by the skill of the speaker.
    韦翰先生是当天最得意的男子，差不多每个女人的眼睛都朝着他看；伊丽莎白是当天最得意的女子，韦翰终于在她的身旁坐了下来。他马上就跟她攀谈，虽然谈的只是些当天晚上下雨和雨季可能就要到来之类的话，可是他那么和颜悦色，使她不禁感觉到即使最平凡、最无聊、最陈旧的话，只要说话的人有技巧，还是一样可以说得动听。

3. The General scanned the dirt-walled room, looking for what'it'might be; and there at the end of the chamber he saw a monumental form, covered with a threadbare tapestry obviously brought down from the floor above.
    将军环顾了一下这个墙壁肮脏的房间，试图了解`它`到底是什么；在房间的尽头，他看到了非常特别的东西，被一块显然是从楼上拿下来的破旧的挂毯覆盖着。

4. 好好学单词·英语单词

4. Communist Party of China is also slowly resolve and remove this looks a little threadbare stereotypes of.
    共产党中国目前也在解决和慢慢删除这种显得有些俗套的陈规陋习了。

5. Threadbare? ?.... wearing the skating boots bruised my shank. i cannot go on with it.
    我女朋友每次叫我射在她的嘴了，女人都喜欢那样吗？

6. threadbare在线翻译

6. He wore a very old and very well brushed round hat; a coarse coat, worn perfectly threadbare, of an ochre yellow, a color that was not in the least eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; and thick shoes with copper buckles.
    他戴一顶刷得极干净的旧圆帽，穿一身已经磨到经纬毕现的赭黄粗呢大衣（那种颜色在当时是一点也不奇怪的），一件带口袋的古式长背心，一条膝头上已变成灰色的黑裤，一双黑毛线袜和一双带铜扣襻的厚鞋。

7. A threadbare patch of Brussels carpet covered the centre of the room, and formed an oasis of roses and lilies upon a desert of faded green drugget.
    一方磨损的布鲁塞尔毛圈地毯铺在房间的中央，成为一大片退色粗毛绿地毯的沙漠里的一块玫瑰与百合的绿洲。

8. China`s record as a citizen of the world is strikingly threadbare.
    中国在世界舞台上的形象不怎么好。

9. Bromidic sermons; his remarks were trite and commonplace; hackneyed phrases; a stock answer; repeating threadbare jokes; parroting some timeworn axiom; the trite metaphor `hard as nails'.
    陈腐的说教；他的评论陈腐而平凡；陈腐之词；俗套的答案；重复无聊的笑话；模仿陈旧的公理；'象钉子一样坚硬'是古老的比喻。

10. He scaled down his lifestyle to a minimum -- taking buses and subways, cooking his own meals, living in tiny, threadbare Beijing apartments -- all the while rejected for grant money because of his lack of an academic research pedigree.
    他把生活水平压缩到最低限度：乘坐公交汽车和地铁出行，自己做饭，住在北京破旧狭小的公寓里。而且，由于缺乏学术研究背景，他也得不到资助。

11. threadbare的近义词

11. He looked like all the tramps who came to our house from the hobo camp by the river during the Great Depression. His shaggy hair hung below a shapeless hat, and his threadbare shirt and trousers had been rained on and slept in.
      经济大萧条时期有许多流浪汉从河那边的游民营来过我家，他看起来跟他们一样，蓬乱的头发从那顶不成型的帽子下露了出来破破烂烂的衬衣和裤子显然被雨水淋湿过，还穿着睡过觉。

12. As the old man stares down at the threadbare carpet, a mangy dog chews at scraps under the kitchen sink
      当这老人凝视脚下磨掉了毛的地毯时，一只脱了毛的狗正在厨房污水槽下嚼食残羹剩饭。

13. Holes have not only appeared in the bank's accounts; its initial version of events is also looking threadbare.
      他很幸运。不仅是银行的账目，它对这一事件最初的解释也显得破绽百出。

14. I remember one bitterly cold winter night when I was a teenage soldier in Germany, away from home for the first time, freshly assigned overseas, knowing nobody except fellow soldiers I`d only been introduced to a day before, as lonely and depressed and forlorn as I`d ever been in my life, wandering into the tiny base library and seeing on the shelves there familiar books that I`d once taken out of the library at home, and feeling a sudden surge of warmth and encouragement as I touched the familiar cracked, threadbare spines of the books and looked at their faded covers.
      我还记得一个严寒刺骨的冬夜。那是我才十几岁，成了一名驻扎在德国的年轻士兵，第一次远离家乡，被派驻海外。

15. A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly without an appointment into the president of Harvard's outer office.
      一个身穿褪色的格子布衣服的女人和她丈夫，一个身穿家纺布的、到处露着线头的衣服的男人，在波士顿下了火车。事先都没有预约，就怯生生地走进哈佛大学校长的办公室外间。

16. I use my clothes and shoes until they are threadbare.
      我的衣服和鞋子一直要穿到破了为止。

17. threadbare什么意思

17. Most of these connections would be pretty threadbare.
      大多数的联系都很表面。

18. America's wider democracy project looks more threadbare by the day.
      这些天美国的大中东民主改造计划显得更加软弱无力。

19. But, with much of this wealth tied up in horrific stock markets, tycoons are a looking a little more threadbare.
      然而，由于大部分财富绑牢在可怕的股票市场，巨富们的外表看起来没那么光鲜了。

20. Include these and the extra cushion looks more threadbare.
      若计入此类贷款，新增的拨备就不那么起眼了。

1. (衣服、地毯等)破旧的，磨薄的，陈旧的
    Threadbare clothes, carpets, and other pieces of cloth look old, dull, and very thin, because they have been worn or used too much.

    e.g. She sat cross-legged on a square of threadbare carpet.
           她盘腿坐在一块破旧的方形地毯上。

2. (活动、想法、论点)无力的，不充分的，陈旧乏味的
    If you describe an activity, an idea, or an argument as threadbare, you mean that it is very weak, or inadequate, or old and no longer interesting.

    e.g. ...the government's threadbare domestic policies.
           政府陈腐的国内政策

1. repeated too often
    overfamiliar through overuse

    e.g. bromidic sermons
           his remarks were trite and commonplace
           hackneyed phrases
           a stock answer
           repeating threadbare jokes
           parroting some timeworn axiom
           the trite metaphor `hard as nails'

    Synonym: banal commonplace hackneyed old-hat shopwornstock(a)timeworn tired trite well-worn

2. having the nap worn away so that the threads show through

    e.g. threadbare rugs